A Summer in a City in the Middle of the Desert: Visions of Mexicali, Mexico, in <em>Levantamuertos</em> (2013)

Cebey, Georgina

Georgina Cebey

Georgina Cebey is a faculty member at the School of Architecture of the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) and member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. She received her PhD in Art History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her work focuses on the history of architecture, with emphasis on the representation of space and architecture in art and media. She is the author of Arquitectura del fracaso (Mexico, Feta: 2017/ Festina: 2022) wich won the Vasconcelos national essay prize in Mexico; editor of “Cine y megalópolis. Aproximaciones a la ciudad latinoamericana desde el cine urbano (Mexico: UNAM-Facultad de Arquitectura, 2022); and coeditor of The Routledge Handook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities (Abingdon, Routledge: 2024).

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A Summer in a City in the Middle of the Desert: Visions of Mexicali, Mexico, in Levantamuertos (2013)

Georgina Cebey

Georgina Cebey analyses the distinctive image of Mexicali in Levantamuertos (2013), arguing that the film's exploration of the "slow violence" of everyday life challenges stereotypical representations of the Mexican border.